engineering projects
TerrainTable
Designed and protoyped a portable, adjustable table to help improve the lives of college students. The table features an automatic self-leveling mechanism and multi degree of freedom feet for use on any surface. Utilized design thinking principles and empathy fieldwork throughout the design process.
Model Wind Turbine
Developed a blade element momentum solver to generate an optimal wind turbine geometry. Tested and printed the turbine in a wind tunnel to evaluate the power extraction.
Bi-Modal Drone Attachment
Designed and prototyped a rectractable arm attachment to enable gliding behavior in drones. Utilized 3D printing and design thinking for iterative prototyping of the bio-inspired gliding arm. Developed the product as a researcher in the Aerial Robotics Lab at Imperial College London.
Glider Model
Designed and manufactued an aerial glider, using aeronatics theory to maximize both flight time and distance traveled. Used MATLAB based Athena Vortex Lattice for airfoil analysis. Fabricated using laser cut balsam wood.
Double Acting Piston Pump
Machined and assembled a double-acting piston pump designed to maximize the volumetric flowrate of water, detailed in a 34 page report.
WellBot
Designed a mechatronic product to aid the mental health of Cornell students. The acrylic, laser cut prototype features UV LEDs activated by low ambient lighting to alleviate the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. The robot also preforms randomized, playful dances at the press of a button.
Cube Craze Autonomous Robot
Designed, coded, and assembled an autonomous mobile robot for MAE 3780 - Mechatronics. The robot was designed to compete against other robots in gathering the most cubes on a playing field in 60 seconds. The code in c++ utilized solely registers rather than Arduino commands to control the robot’s sensing and actuation.
Porous Media Combustion - Sobhani Lab
Investigating porous media burner performance in conventionally and additively manufactured porous matrices. Specifically testing how these burners respond to the unstable fuel dynamics characteristic of bioderived fuels.